The class meets twice a week: Wednesday we discuss
a new technology, the following Monday we discuss legal issues it
raises. Each student will be expected to suggest legal issues for at
least two
classes, emailing me descriptions by 10 P.M. Saturday. I will web the
descriptions, if possible by midnight Saturday, so that the rest of the
students will have a chance to think about them before class.The
student who proposes an issue is expected to take an active part in
discussing it and may, but is not required to, provide a summary of
the discussion for the web site.

Each student is expected to do legal research for
one technology in order to be able to answer questions about current
law relevant to issues that that technology raises. I will suggest
some relevant legal questions but the student doing the research may
add more. Legal research from previous years is webbed; you should be
adding
to it. Two students who are doing research for the same week
may agree on how to divide the topics. The legal research should
reach me in the form of a summary of the relevant law--something on
the order of three to ten pages per student--by Saturday so that I can
web it for the rest of the class to look at before Monday's
discussion. The students who have done the research may also be asked
to answer legal questions during the discussion.

In addition, each student is expected to complete
a substantial paper dealing with an issue, a group of related
issues, or a technology we have not covered in class. Students may be
given the option of having their paper
webbed. Student grades will be based on that paper, issues submitted,
legal research and contributions to in class discussion. Some of the
better papers
from the past have been webbed (with the permission of their
authors).

Questions such as
"should technology X be banned entirely" are not relevant to
this seminar; we are interested in thinking about how, if a
technology comes into use, the law might deal with its implications.
On the other hand, "is regulation of technology X constitutional" or
"how might it be practical to regulate technology X" are appropriate
questions.